Title: Breakfast Reduces Obesity
Producer: Emily Halevy
Feed: CWKN #379, April 2, 2008
Time: 1:27
SUGGESTED LEAD: IT’S AN OLD ADAGE: BREAKFAST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY. AND YET, AN ESTIMATED 25 PERCENT OF CHILDREN REGULARLY SKIP IT.  NOW THERE IS NEW RESEARCH SHOWING THAT EATING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY SAVES CALORIES THE REST OF THE DAY.  CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS THE STORY.
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NATS: “Do you have everything you need for school?” (:00)

NARR:  IN LOTS OF FAMILIES, MORNINGS ARE CHAOTIC.  SHARE THE BATHROOM, GET THE KIDS DRESSED, PACK UP THE BOOK BAGS … WHICH LEAVES NO TIME FOR BREAKFAST.

… BUT NOT AT THE GONZALEZ HOME. (:12)

NATS: mom scrambling eggs (:14)
“You just want one egg each, or you want two?”

SUPER: Victoria Sanchez, 9 years old (:17)
“It gets you up and running, and um, has lots of nutrition in it.”

SUPER: Yvonne Gonzalez, Mother (:22)
“The kids get all their stuff ready at nighttime, including clothes, and packing backpacks and all that, because if we don’t, in the morning time, there’s no way that we could have time for them to eat breakfast, ever.”

NARR: RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STUDIED OVER TWO THOUSAND TEENS FOR FIVE YEARS.

THEY FOUND THAT TEENS WHO EAT BREAKFAST ON A REGULAR BASIS WEIGH LESS AND EAT A HEALTHIER DIET THAN KIDS WHO DON’T EAT BREAKFAST.

EXPERTS SAY SKIPPING THAT FIRST MEAL MAKES YOU HUNGRIER LATER IN THE DAY. (:19)

SUPER: Ranveig Elvebakk, M.D., Bariatric Physician (:50)
“And when we finally eat, we ravenous and we are craving.  And now we want a quick fix.  And we want sugar and we want carbs, and we want fat, and that’s what we eat.”

NARR: AND THAT, SHE SAYS, FORCES THE BODY TO PRODUCE MORE INSULIN. (:03)

SOT: Ranveig Elvebakk, M.D., Bariatric Physician (1:04)
“This insulin brings the blood sugar into the cell, and what does the cell say?  It says I cannot possibly deal with all this sugar, I need to transform it, and store it somewhere.”

NARR: ONE SOLUTION, EXPERTS SAY, DON’T SKIP BREAKFAST … AND HAVE SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL LIKE EGGS … OR TOAST … OR CEREAL. (:07)

NATS: you ate it all?  Oh my goodness!” (1:21)

NARR:  I’M COLLIN SIEDOR, FOR CONNECT WITH KIDS. (:03)

SUGGESTED TAG:   TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE VALUE OF A GOOD BREAKFAST, LOG ON TO <LOCAL URL> AND CLICK THE CONNECT WITH KIDS ICON.